The Bozeman weekly chronicle., 1887-03-09
Farm Notes.

Don't keep calf tied or shut up in
some damp, dark corner, with hardly
room enough TO lie down. He needs the
sunshine as much as hens or plants in
the garden.
Owing to the prevalence of war rurhors
the nations in Europe are turning their
eyes toward this country as n possible
source of the needed supply of cavalry
horses.
Next to the periodical press, agricultu-
raj meetings are the most readily eflec-
tive means of arousing interest and
disseminating information among farm
ers. These meetings have never been
SO well conducted or so largely attended
as they have been during the past win
ter in some of the western states. Those
in Wisconsin lave been made famous.
One good way to get rid of horns is to
breed them off. Use polled bulls and the
herd will soon be hornless.
Of1l7 trotters who have made miles
in 22O or better eighty.on are by Ham
bletonian or his sons and grandsons in
the direct male line. Besides this the
dams of seventeen others are ofthe same
family.
Some horn carpenters have been pru-
ming the heads Of their cattle too rapidly.
A Missouri man relates a pathetic ex-
perience in the Live Stock Indicator.
He sawed the horns "a leetle too close"
and his steers bled almost to death.
While our farmers are complaining of
hard times they ought to have some
sympathy with their English brethren,
whose condition is still worse, according
to the following paragraph from the
Mark Lane Express: Farmers have
now lost all hope and many of the large
agriculturists admit that unless seine
improvement speedily takes place there
is absolutely nothing but iuin before
them and that at no distant date"
A writer in Hoard's Dairyman esti.
mates that there would be as much
nutrition per annum in the milk of the
| 15,0O0,000 cows in the United States,
| if it was all used for human food, as in
the 1S,0O0000,000 pounds of boneless
beef; or, to put it i'll another form, the
milk Of the average good COW for year
is equal in feeding value to the meat of
one and half steers, weighing 1900
pounds each. The whole calculation is
based on the fact tnat three and one-haf
pounds of milk are equal in feeding value
to one pound of boneless beef-steak.
If we notice carefully the young horse
when he is trotting or running it will be
perceived that every foot is brought to
the ground in such manner that the
frog receives powerful blow, by which
means all injury to the animal is pre-
vented. Science teaches us to permit
the frog to develop and expand DOWN
ward in order to receive the shock of
any sudden conclusion. But most black
smiths seem to think that the allwise
Creator didn't know what he was about
in forming the horses foot. Hence they
first set to work at the frog with the
buttress or other edged tool, red.hot
burning iron, or any other appliance
which will enable them to remove what
they think is an extraneous excrescence
Colonel Weld says that rings on cows
| hnrno inIinofn hn -
they have had, not their age by any
means. lfa COW goes iarrow year she
will have no ring; if she has slip" OF
fit of sickness that pulls her down in
flesh, the horn will stop growing for {
, while, and ring will be the result
Well fed oxen show few or no ring, bu
let steer winter on the sunny side o
straw stack and get well gaunted NJ
before spring, and you will find a goot
strong ring developed, A fit of sickness
will cause ridge in mans finger. nails
and in the same way any severe ia,
. upon the system will bring out rings il
. the horns of cattle-sometimes two il
: one year and sometimes one in tw
e years.
, why does not the butter come? 1t i
a simply matter of temperature, if ther
is reasonable proportion Of fresh COW
! IN the nerd. COWS that have been len
y milking yield cream which is hard t
, churn. Still this, if Of good quality an,
q mixed with that OF other freshes cows +
ripen, and ripened to slight souring at
i, temperature little above 600 will caus
i no trouble. Cream will rise in the col
, put 1t must be rlpened ut temperatul
/ equal to or above that OF churning-sa
at Oo' to e. and it will get no harm
1t is few degrees warmer, but not abov
~, suoii temperature is easily secuf
=! putting 'i'e cream Ill some sue
: "ia'' 40 ''vuuA'u creamery anu seltill
a. Aeiosehc vi '"h'p IN the space peneati
: ''e"n' 10 pe,iee'iy Protecteu lroi
t .no 'ui'ies Vi '''' 'ai'p' anu WIN care IN
,en'p.'a'ule may oe h'ceiy auJ"steu'-
Ai'o'ie''i iai'y iiah'
The range grows poorer every day, an
when the mild Winter ,lops not fol,